The Akedah: Abraham prepared to Sacrifice Isaac
A KOL HA’TOR Presentation
Weekly Bible Reading #4
Year 5773 (2012/2013) – 3 November 2012
Parashat Va’yerah meaning: (and He appeared)
Genesis 18:1 - 22:24
Haftarah: 2 Kings 4:1 - 4:37
Overview
We will endeavor today to stay in context with our previous three Parashot.
We have traced G-d’s persistence through our previous Parashot, to fulfill His original Intention of creating mankind to rule with Him in His Eternal Kingdom.
In Parashat Va’yerah (‘and He appeared’) we read about G-d’s direct intervention by appearing to Avraham and Lot, once more to wipe out an entire unrighteous and evil community, this time by raining fire and brimstone on Sodom. But throughout this Parashah and its Haftarah, LIFE prevails; life through miraculous salvation and resurrection, thus re-birth.
- The saving of Isaac at the moment his father, Abraham, was ready to sacrifice him according to a Divine instruction which Abraham perceived.
- The saving of Lot, the only righteous man that G-d could find in Sodom.
- Most beautiful Sarah is restored to her husband and saved from being adulterated by another man.
- The Shunammite woman’s son restored to Life by the prophet Elisha.
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; Painting by John Martin, 1852.
Surely, the Message for us here (and in context with the rest of the Bible Message) is: That Life Eternal is part of HaShem’s intended ‘Package’ for those who conform, those whom He will protect and miraculously save – like Isaac, Lot, Sarah and the Shunammite woman’s son?
This Parashah opens with a revealing though somewhat ‘hidden’ statement in which G-d says it all:
Genesis 18:18 – “Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the Way of HaShem by doing what is right and just, so that HaShem will bring about for Abraham what He has promised him.”
Thus: The Blessing of Abraham is conditional upon “keeping The Way of HaShemThe rest is commentary and guidance on how to achieve this – as prescribed in the Word of G-d and interpreted and conveyed by His mandated ‘Lawgivers’, the spiritual leadership of Judah
Genesis 49:10 – “The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a scholar (“Lawgiver”) from among his descendants until Shiloh (Messiah son of David) arrives and His will be an assemblage of nations.”
Psalms 60:7 – “Judah is My Lawgiver (Mechoqeck).”
Psalms 108:8 – “Judah is My Lawgiver (Mechoqeck).”
OvadYah
Kol HaTor
You Might Want to Refer to the 2012-2013 Yearly Kol Ha’Tor Parashat Portion Reading Index for future Kol Ha’Tor Commentaries
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You might Want to Read Destination Yisra’el’s Kol Ha’Tor Series on “Judah the Mechoqeck”
“Judah - The Lawgiver of God – Part One”
“Judah- The Lawgiver of God – Part Two”
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This comes to one sobering conclusion, if you are a descendant of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel and you despise your brothers, the Jews, you will be left cohabitating with peoples who will have a genetic hatred to you even though you think you want to be a part of them.
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